From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Motion Graphics in Motion and After Effects

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Timesaving techniques in After Effects

Timesaving techniques in After Effects - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

From the course: Final Cut Pro X Guru: Motion Graphics in Motion and After Effects

Start my 1-month free trial

Timesaving techniques in After Effects

“

- We all need more of it, time. As a video editor and motion graphic designer I'm always looking for ways to assist and even automate my workflow so the next time there's a little less work to be done. Let me share with you a few tricks to help you save time in After Effects. So I've actually gone to a previous composition we've worked with, Chapter 4.5 where we had two elements, some swinging text and a line because I wanted to draw this point again as I do it in motion and it's all about saving. So once you've done an animation such as this swinging text, you'll remember that I handed you a preset is to save that preset and use it over and over again. So the animation for this swinging text, I'm actually going to hit the 'u' key, consists of a few things that were involved. One is the animation of the X rotation as well as the opacity. Last, is just to switch to the anchor point so that the anchor point is at the top of the text so that we have that swing feeling. If you selected…

Contents